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'Perfect Moment ™' rose Reviews & Comments
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12 APR 10 by
Daun
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This is the best cutting rose in my garden. The color is red tips with an orange base. It is really a stunning rose! The stems have ample, dangerous thorns, the bush is a healthy dark green. If I moved this would be the one HT that I would move with me!
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Perfect Moment caught my eye in a neighbor's yard some years back. I immediately took to the fire-like intensity to the red, orange and yellow hues. In fact, I think a more apt name for this rose would be "Radiant Ember" or "Fireside". What I was not prepared for, as an owner of this rose going on three years now, is that the specimen I purchased feels and looks rather rubbery. The canes have a greater-than-average number of thorns — in fact, I can't entirely rule out whether this is a characteristic or a disease — and the blooms, up close, are not all that delicate and demure looking.
As it turns out, this week I found something unexpectedly redeeming about Perfect Moment that I hadn't noticed before. The area where I live has been hit by a series of violent, windy rainstorms — monsoon-like deluges, over 4 inches of rain thus far — and while every other rose in my garden bent over and what few winter blooms were present began to droop, a half dozen or so buds on Perfect Moment unfurled in the midst of all this chaotic weather despite the 40-50-degree weather. (The roses should be dormant this time of year but I hadn't completed all my pruning before the winter storms hit this week.)
You would never know Perfect Moment spent the past week getting slammed by four back-to-back storms, complete with gale-force winds. They look stunning in a vase, and at a time of year when most of my roses are sluggish and bedraggled, Perfect Moment is blooming as if it were Spring or Summer. The buds opened without dropping, entirely impervious to the rain. Before all this started I loved the intense color at a distance but I disliked Perfect Moment up close because of its odd texture. However, now I know what those waxy, rubbery blooms have going for them: A built-in rain coat!
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I was so glad I was able to bring them back from what they were last year. But now, I feel like it was all for not. Something is wrong and I have been trying all summer to fix them. They don't look like that picture anymore. The main stem on this bush fell off it only had 3 stems and 1 stem last year before I started taking care of it. (The roses were at this house before I was they are 15 years old and had been neglected for about 9 years by my new husband). Right now they are covered in a white mildew that I have tried to get rid of with fungicides. They also have black spot. The only thing that never got them was aphids. But that does not matter now. The two little bushes with only 2 stems each are standing at less than a 1' tall. I'm worried I won't be able to bring them back from this.
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4 SEP 07 by
Wendy C
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Roses rarely die as a result of black spot or powdery mildew. Get a 'Safer' spray and follow the directions. Feed them with a well balanced food, and pull out the grass from around them, they don't like that at all... and water them at the base really well every few days.
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I am using an organic fungicide that I got from Behnkes. It worked to get rid of the mildew last year, but not this year. One of the cane's on the big bush fell off (in fact it was the main cane). The biggest bush now only has one thick cane and two small sucker looking canes. My husband did a soil test yesterday with a glass jar and a core of the flower bed dirt. We can't even tell which layers are which it is all the same color. I'm new at this, but all the bulbs in that same bed were rotted when I separated them this year (after 9 years of growing). I think the soil might need a bit of touching up. I water the plants every other day and every day for 10 minutes in hot weather. Maybe that's too much? The soil no matter how much water I put on it is always thick and compacted like mud.
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4 SEP 07 by
Wendy C
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If bulbs are rotting, you well be over watering. Cut back on the water, let things dry out and see if that doesn't help. There are homemade fungicides, do a search on the internet and see what you can find.
I'm not familiar with soil tests so I can't help you there.
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Incredible long-lasting blooms, beautiful cut also. Long season too!
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